Monday Made It...flowers and ice cream...

This is my first official Monday Made It of the summer...

at home...with all my supplies.

Actually, I spent the day with Miss Nelson craftin' away...

at her house.

Both of us LOVE linkin' up with sweet Tara from 

4th Grade Frolics and both get into some serious trouble

for makin' a mess everywhere.

Maybe that's why we decided last summer to create

a store together called Double Trouble.

Glitter, glue guns, giggles...doesn't sound so troublesome to me, 

but what do I know?

In my classroom, I have a different colored table bucket on each

of my six tables.

Yes, I do tables in 5th grade and it's one of the best

decisions I have ever made in my teachin' career.

In the past, I have stored pencils, pens, etc. in plastic cups

that go inside the bucket.

This year, I wanted to switch it up a lil' bit.

I did a little sneak peek on Instagram.

Make sure you link yours up today and use #mondaymadeit

I like to go back and stalk browse your pictures!

I bought some mason jars at Michael's for $1.50 a piece and

some pretty flowers for 30% off each flower...

makin' each flower $1.39.

I already had some tulle that I had bought at Hobby Lobby last summer.
I used them for this craft here.

I cut off the the stems on each flower and then wrapped the tulle
around the plastic green part.
I put some hot glue in there to keep the tulle inside.

I wrapped the tulle with the flower around the jar and dropped

some pens and highlighters in each one.  

They are so bright and festive!
I can't wait to get the flower caddies in my buckets.

You can check out what the rest of my classroom decor
looks like here.

Kirsten Terborg asked me to make a custom set of 

Fact Families-Behavior Beads

for her this past week.

I wrote about them here.

These are new.

They can be used for Addition/Subtraction or

Multiplication/Division Fact Families.

These will help motivate students to learn their facts

and will give them somethin' to look forward to when

they know they will be gettin' an ice cream

sundae party at the end.

Want to know more about Behavior Beads?

Click here and here.

These are on sale again for $2.50 on Monday and Tuesday.

I will be usin' Sign Up Genius to ask parents for

Ice Cream Sundae Party donations for students

after learnin' their multiplication fact families.

I always like to send home Thank You notes

to students and parents for participating in somethin'

or for donatin' items to our classroom.

It's just the sweet thing to do and

I hope my students learn to do the same for others.

I have made a FREEBIE for anyone

that is usin' Fact Families-Behavior Beads in their class

You can click here or on the pictures.

I made Miss Nelson and I some homemade ice cream

to celebrate Monday Made It.

Directions:

1) Open freezer and pick out desired dessert.

2) Take lid off of carton.

3) Scoop contents out into bowl with a spoon.

4) Eat and enjoy at home...that's what makes it homemade.

Total kitchen time from start to finish...approximately 5 minutes...

maybe less if you have an awesome ice cream scoop.

The real stuff: Yes...it's SO Delicious!

My best Monday Made It food item...ever!

I'm even goin' to link it up with Christy at 

Teaching Tales Along the Yellow Brick Road

for 

Eating, Drinking, Linking...Oh My!

My friend Cassie Lea over at Funky in Fourth

is havin' an AWESOME giveaway!

Head over and check it out!

Happy Monday, friends!